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46 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east must be shut on[a] the six of the days for work, but on the day of the Sabbath it must be opened and on the day of the new moon it must be opened. And the prince shall come by way of the portico of the gate from the outside, and he shall stand at the doorframe of the gate and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until the evening. And the people of the land will bow down at the doorway of that gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons before[b] Yahweh.

And the burnt offering which the prince will offer to Yahweh on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs without defect and a ram without defect. And the grain offering he will give shall be an ephah for each ram,[c] and for the male lambs the grain offering shall be as much as he wants to give[d] and a hin of olive oil for each ephah.[e] And on the day of the new moon he will offer a bull, a calf[f] without defect and six male lambs and a ram; they must be without defect. And an ephah for each bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide as a grain offering, and also for the male lambs as much as he can afford[g] and a hin of olive oil for each ephah.

And when the prince comes, on[h] the way of the portico of the gate he shall come and by this[i] way he shall go out.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 46:1 Or “during”
  2. Ezekiel 46:3 Literally “to the face of”
  3. Ezekiel 46:5 Literally “to the ram”
  4. Ezekiel 46:5 Literally “the gift of his hand”
  5. Ezekiel 46:5 Literally “to the ephah”
  6. Ezekiel 46:6 Literally “son of cattle,” or “son of the herd”
  7. Ezekiel 46:7 Literally “as that it stretches out his hand”
  8. Ezekiel 46:8 Or “by”
  9. Ezekiel 46:8 Or “his”

Miscellaneous Regulations

46 “Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall remain closed on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.(A) The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his offerings of well-being, and he shall bow down at the entryway of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until evening.(B) The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.(C) The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish,(D) and the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he wishes to give, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.(E) On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull of the herd without blemish and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish;(F) as a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram and with the lambs as much as he wishes, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.(G) When the prince enters, he shall come in by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.(H)

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